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- Jurisdiction
- Iowa (all State courts) · Iowa
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Iowa Const. art. V, §§ 1, 4
- Issued
- 2020-03-17 Mar. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-17 (building closure March 18, 2020) (read as 2020-03-17)
- End
- Superseded by IA-050 (April 2, 2020) and IA-051 (May 22, 2020) (read as 2020-04-02)
- In force
- Mar. 17, 2020 to Apr. 2, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- all Iowa courts, clerks, attorneys and litigants
- Functions reached
- CT court access limited to emergency in-person business
- CL/SV court-dependent transactions delayed
- Collection
- Iowa IA
Operative words
'[trials scheduled to] begin before April 20, 2020 shall be continued and reset to a date no earlier than April 20. This includes nonjury trials.... All traffic-related proceedings set to commence before April 17 shall [be continued]... all civil nonjury trials and other hearings set to commence before May 4 shall be either continued to a date [no earlier than May 4] or conducted [by videoconference or telephone]... Any mediation set to occur at a courthouse location before May 4 shall be continued or directed to occur by videoconference or telephone... District courts shall continue to conduct the following in-person business [emergency matters only]... [The Judicial Branch Building in Des] Moines 50319 shall be closed to the public effective March 18.'
Enforcement
Notes
Retrieval noteSix-page scanned PDF read by OCR.